Erschienen in:
01.10.2008 | Editorial
Assessing the Acute Abdomen in the Bariatric Patient: Need for Improvement
verfasst von:
Paul O’Brien, Wendy Brown
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 10/2008
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Excerpt
In a Case Report entitled, “Small Bowel Obstruction creates a Closed Loop in patients with a Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band”, which is in this issue of Obesity Surgery, Campbell and colleagues have drawn our attention to an area of increasing concern. They report two patients with small bowel obstruction due to adhesions. Although normally a straightforward surgical task, these cases became complicated and the patients’ health was put at serious risk, because these patients had had bariatric surgery. With lack of the awareness that laparosopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) limits vomiting and belching, the contents of the stomach were allowed to build excessively, leading to gross gastric dilatation, and potentially catastrophic sequelae were only just averted. …